On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> For those who've seen the film already you know the scene I'm about to 
> describe: S. Flynn finds the back room where K. Flynn had his port of the old 
> ENCOM mainframe, complete with digitizing laser system.  The big computer is 
> clearly some kind of Intel-based system -- I caught the "i386" on the shell 
> window.  Given the time frame it was set up (late 1980s) that would make it a 
> genuine 80306.  I caught a bit of the vmstat output on the left, enough to 
> recognize it as vmstat but not enough to identify the flavor.  Did any of you 
> see enough to identify the actual OS?  I suspect that it is either Sun i386, 
> a Sequent Symmetry, or possibly a Unisys of some sort.
> 
> If it's a Linux kernel then I'll just chalk it up to yet another time warp 
> artifact. :)

A friend said:

CZ> Looks like it's running Sunos 4.0.1, Sun4m, I386. That's weird.  However
>4.0.1 and the 24mb of memory I can see match up with a 386i with three
>memory boards. That could work if he had a CG5 framebuffer.
>
>The Sun4m line though didn't run 4.0.1, I think one needed 4.0.3. And the
>size of the boxes reminds me of the size of the Sparcserver 670MP. Which
>would be enough to run a fun world.


-dsr-

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